BSc, MSc, PhD, FRGS, FHEA • He/his/him
Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) in Geographic Data Science
Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London
- Programme Director of BSc Geography, BA Human Geography, BSc Environment & Sustainability
- Coordinator of the Geo-Analytics and Modelling Group (GAM)
- Co-convenor of the Urban Intersections Seminar Series
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and its Geographic Information Science Research Group
- Alumnus of the Centre for Spatial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Adjunct Research Fellow at Research Center for Social Informatics Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan
I am a geographic data scientist conducting research on:
- Spatial analysis, GIS
- Crowdsourcing, volunteered geographic information, social media analytics
- Internet geography, digital humanities
- Natural language processing, semantic similarity
- Ontology engineering, Semantic Web, Linked Data
I support PhD and postdoctoral funding applications, as well as dissertations in any of these themes. See my short CV and videos. I also have a research blog (Data Science In Place).
My work appeared in Slate, The Independent, Motherboard/VICE, Quartz, and The Conversation.
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